The human capability for benevolence as well as malevolence can produce astonishing results. The modern mass media, combined with modern communications technology, provide us with near-constant displays of human greatness as well as human meanness. It’s a perennial challenge faced by all societies across the globe. The opening reading of Jesus’ triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem was soon…
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Where does the money come from? It’s rather a tricky question, so let me narrow it down. What is the source of the money we can spend? The answer is: it depends on who you ask. Usually, it’s children that have the funniest ideas, like tooth fairies, Santa or ‘hole-in-the-wall’. The latter is the most convenient because – unlike the…
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I think we can all agree that comedy – in various forms – is among the most popular forms of entertainment. My favourite one is stand-up comedy and I have to admit that I consume quite a lot of it. Partially because – thanks to the internet – I’m able to watch or listen to relatively short comedic snippets rather…
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Having noticed the degradation of my eyesight I prayed (that’s what you do…) and gave serious consideration to Jesus’s rhetorical question in today’s gospel: ‘Can one blind man guide another?’ As my prayer didn’t seem to be working, I went to Specsavers where I had my eyes tested and consequently got new glasses. My gaze is so sharp now that…
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To say that today’s gospel is impossibly challenging would be a massive understatement. Taken literally it’s a recipe for disaster because it would be exposing oneself to exploitation and abuse. And because very few people – if anyone – wants to willingly be exploited or abused, this passage of the gospel is effectively dismissed as undoable, the impractical remarks of…